Grayson Perry joins RA
By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 24 March 2011
RA Perry
Grayson Perry has been elected a Royal Academician as a printmaker, not a potter. A RA spokeswoman pointed out that Academicians have to be “practicising painters, sculptors, engravers, printmakers, draughtsmen or architects”. Perry, the first transvestite potter to win the Turner Prize (2003), also etches and engraves, and so he has been allowed to join the honoured ranks in Burlington House. On 22 March he was the guest speaker at the RA Schools annual dinner, and although it was a black tie event, Perry added some colour to the night and came as his usual female altar-ego “Claire”, rather than hire a tired Moss Bros suit.
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